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One of the articles I linked t in yesterday's post on the 21st Century Cures Act refereed the "HIPPA" rule. HIPPA stand for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This law, passed in 1996, made it [...]

Earlier this week, C4L Vice President of Policy Norm Singleton joined The Poker Player's Alliance's Rich Muny on their podcast to talk about Congressional attempts to ban online gambling. Norm's interview begins at about the 40 min mark, but the [...]

Today the House will vote on HR 5, the Student Success Act. Later this week, the Senate will vote on S. 1177 the Every Child Achieves Act. As the titles suggest, these bills reauthorize and "reform" federal K-12 education [...]

Representative Ted Poe is not the only representative offering a pro-liberty amendment to the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill (HR 2822). Representative Thomas Massie will be offering an amendment to forbid the [...]

Last week we saw an encouraging sign that the 50 year cold war between the US and Cuba was finally coming to an end. President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be [...]

Tomorrow, the US House will vote on the "21st Century Cures Act" (HR 6). As the title suggests this bill deals with federal funding for medical research. H.R. 6 does contain some good provisions. For example, it streamlines the Food and Drug [...]

This week the House is voting on the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill (HR 2822).
Representative Ted Poe, who is sponsoring legislation to finance the highway trust fund by selling off some of [...]

This week, rock legend Pete Townshend of The Who released Truancy, a compilation of some of his best solo work. Truancy also contains two new songs.
One of the new songs, Guantanamo, deals with issues of indefinite detention:
Down in [...]